Accession number
PML 16170.1
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title
Incipit opusculum trimartitum de preceptis decalogi de confessione et de arte morie[n]di, p[er] eximium sacre theologie p[ro]fessore[m] magistru[m] Iohannem Gerson alme vniuersitatis P[ar]isiens[is] cancellarium.
Published
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1470]
Description
[32] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's types 1b:106/111G and 2:115G.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-4⁸]: 32 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [4]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's types 1b:106/111G and 2:115G.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-4⁸]: 32 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [4]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13 cm.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled (Harleian style) red morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione, et de arte moriendi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Inscription in rubricator's ink: "xxxvi sixtues" (leaf [4]/8v). Early foliation.
Provenance
Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), Bodleian Librarian, Oxford, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sales, Sotheby's, 2 and 12 Aug. and 20 Dec. 1861 and 10 Feb. 1862; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Sept. 1909.
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